INTERNATIONAL KURASH ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL KURASH INSTITUTE Komil Yusupov INTERNATIONAL KURASH RULES TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS Methodical-practical manual for kurash athletes, coaches, instructors and teacher of colleges, physical educational institutions and physical education faculties of univerities Publishing and printing-creative house named after Gafur Gulam Tashkent—2005 75.715 Y91 Critics: T.S.Usmankhodjaev — Doctor of pedagogical science, proffessor, awarded with «For healthy generation» 1-degree order, O. L. Musurmonov — Candidate of pedagogical science, docent, S. Kurbonov — Chief specialist of Center of Education under the Ministry of public education. Translated by — Z. N. Khodjiniyazov 4204000000-50 Y order. 2005 M352 (04) – 2005 ISBN 5-635-02355-x © K.Yusupov. Publishing and printing-creative house named after Gafur Gulam 2005. "Kurash incorporates features close to the spirit and character of the Uzbek people namely courage, bravery, spiritual generosity, fairness and humanism. " I. Karimov FOREWORD Thanks to independence and zealous work of Kurash activists a new sport appeared on the world arena by making reasonable contribution to the peoples' civilization, becoming an international value, which is a real opportunity for world nations. Kurash penetrated into the soul of world nations regardless of religion, language, race and people are doubtlessly eager to use uzbek words as "Tazim", "Kurash", "Khalol", "Yonbosh", "Chala", "Girrom" in their own lexicon. Owing to independence and diligence of the President of Uzbekistan His Excellency Islam Karimov Kurash achieved world recognition. It is worth mentioning that conversation, took place on 14th of April 1992 between the President of Uzbekistan and one of the assiduous Kurash activists Mr. Komil Yusupov, set exact future perspectives for Kurash. The idea to develop Kurash as a sport, to propagate and promote and bring it to the world came to mind of Komil Yusupov in 1980s and this idea had immediately been put forward. At that time he would actively take part in weddings - "traditional Kurash festivities" as well as was very interested to study customs, mores and traditions of our national sport. Understanding that, K. Yusupov brought forward the idea of taking Kurash to world arena. New rules created as a result of researches for several years were discussed at the Central Asia and Kazakhstan scientific conference held on June 14-15 of 1991. After 2-days negotiations rules, clothes of referees and athletes were approved. Main part of rules appeared in "Sport" newspaper in 17th of September 1991 edition on the 17th day after the President declared the independence of Uzbekistan. All around the regions of the Republic in the set of articles "People's movement and organization of sport events" (Tashkent, 1992) the complete version of the new Kurash rules were explained. In May 1992 the rules were published as "Rules of National Kurash" (Tashkent, 1992) in a form of a manual. According to Kurash rules techniques of athletes are evaluated by commands "Halol", "Yonbosh" and "Chala". Any spectator or athlete shall learn the rules easily and just at a glance.That's why Kurash rules created by Komil Yusupov were accepted in a short period of time by Kurash specialists, coaches, referees and especially spectators and people. Besides, taking into consideration the traditions of Kurash circles a weight category for athletes from 36 to 80 years and older was included into the rules for the first time in the history of sports, which gave more respect to Kurash, because athletes of 35-40 years of age had lost their hope for grappling. On 7-10 of August 1991 in Shahrisabz city a big Kurash event was held with participation of athletes from Central Asia and Kazakhstan. The competition totally differed from past ones as athletes fought in accordance with new rules. The year of 1992 gave a start for several prestigious tournaments held according to these new rules. President Islam Karimov started to commemorate the names of great athletes and scholars by holding the international Kurash tournaments. Organizing and holding international memorial Kurash tournaments such as "Tursun ota" in Karakul, "Amir Temur" in Shahrisabz, "At- Termiziy" in Surkhandarya region, "Bahouddin Nakshband" in Bukhara, "Bobur Mirzo" in Andijan, "Pahlavon Makhmud" for the President's Prize made an immense contribution to promotion of Kurash and appearing as a new sport in the world arena. At the very first competitions Kurash gained love of foreign specialists and participants with its attractiveness and dynamism, beauty and purity. Competitions held in Uzbekistan were not enough to make a national sport an international one. This was the reason for the demonstrative presentations, explanation on Kurash to take place at big sport events in South Korea (1992), Canada (1993), Lithuania (1993), Japan (1994), Ireland (1997), India (1995), Atlanta (1996), Moscow (1998) and France with participation of specialists and spectators. Hard work, researches were not in vain. September the 6th of 1998 shall be written in the thousands year history of Kurash with golden letters as outstanding event day. It is the day when the First Constitutional Congress with participation of representatives from 28 states of Pan American, European and Asian continents was held and where the International Kurash Association (IKA) was created and recognized to speak on behalf of our nation's tradition - "Kurash" in the world. President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov was elected as permanent Honorary President of the International Kurash Association who fully supported the world promotion of our people's ancient tradition and pride. At the Congress the Directing Committee of IKA was also formed up. International Kurash rules created by K. Yusupov were unanimously approved and K. Yusupov was elected as the President of the International Kurash Association. President of Uzbekistan issued decree on "Supporting the International Kurash Association" on lsl of February 1999. Today Kurash has its supporters in more than 70 countries on all 5 continents 6f the world including states such as Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, South Africa, Great Britain, Hungary, Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, Iran, and Japan. Even in countries "incredible" for Uzbekistan like Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Ecuador, Zambia, Nigeria, Mauritius Kurash techniques are practiced with big interest. Continental Federations in Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania are formed and function. At the moment they are enlarging their frame of activity to promote and develop this publicly-accepted ancient sport. Shortly we can say that Kurash is a big heritage - treasure passed from generations to generations, which made a great contribution to the world civilization. This treasure is a significant factor in upbringing current generation. People of different continents and nationalities accept Kurash as their favorite sport for its attractiveness, humanism, internationality and heartfullness philosophies. Olympic and World championships can be won in any sport, but not any nation can bring its sport into the international arena. The goal of a sportsman is to become an Olympic Champion and the highest goal of Uzbek nation, world Kurash athletes is to make Kurash an Olympic sport. We hope this manual will give you enough information about Kurash. Dilbar KULDOSHEVA Rector of International Kurash Institute INTERNATIONAL KURASH ASSOCIATION Six years have passed since the International Kurash Association was created. It is a very short period to be history, but though Kurash gained unbelievable respect in the world arena and fully proved to be an Olympic sport. For the past period the International Kurash Association have worked in 3 main directions: 1. IKA created its structure and it is constantly functioning: The supreme governing organ of IKA is Congress. IKA's governing body Directing Committee has been fully formed and constantly functions. Directing Committee consists of 15 members from Uzbekistan, South Africa, Bolivia, India, New Zealand, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Iran and Netherlands. The Directing Committee calls its meeting at least twice a year. In 5 continents there continental branches - confederations are formed and are functioning. Official Kurash federations are opened in 77 countries of the world. In IKA's member- countries there are at least 100 Kurash clubs opened. 2. Calendar of competitions: Since IKA was created more than 500 big and prestigious competitions have been held worldwide. They include senior and junior world and continental championships, international tournaments, competitions held by sponsors, cup competitions. So far four world senior championships have been held: in 1999 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), in 2000 in Antalya (Turkey), in 2001 in Budapest (Hungary) and in 2002 in Erevan (Armenia). Henceforth world senior and junior championships shall be held in every two years by turns. Other competitions shall be held annually. Continental senior and junior championships are also held on a constant basis (First European Championships in Minsk in 1999, First Asian Championships in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 2001, First African Championships in Hartenbos (South Africa) in 2001, First Pan American Championships in 2002 in La Paz (Bolivia), First Oceania championships in Auckland (New Zealand) in 2003). The British Kurash Association has been holding the International Islam Karimov Tournament since 2000 in London. Besides this big event, they organize and hold several